Sessions at SharePoint Saturday NYC 2012 about Lightning Talks and Track: IT Pro and SharePoint on Saturday 28th July

Microsoft has offered two options to upgrading to SharePoint 2010 – Inplace upgrade and Content Database Attach. This presentation shows an easy hybrid method that takes the best parts of both the Microsoft options to create and easy to implement upgrade.

Configure and create federated location to leverage external system search capabilities inside SharePoint farm. Federate search allows administrators to use other systems search capabilities like Live, Google or other SharePoint farms and display results in their farm.

Microsoft’s Performance Monitor application makes a wealth of information about the components on the servers. In order to properly diagnose and troubleshoot SharePoint performance problems, SharePoint Admin often depends on a performance monitor (perfmon) log during problem period. Choosing or picking different sets of Performance Counters for SharePoint Servers are sometime cucumbersome and time comsuming. Also few client do not allow to log-in to Production Servers directly. Using Powershell we can achive all the possible scenario and can make re-usable script.

In the live demo will try to show how to make best use of PS and other free tool to make readable report from Perf Mon Counters.